In the movie, planet Miller was right in range of the gravitational pull from the black hole. As mentioned before, black holes contain a singularity which has infinite density. That would explain the strength of the corresponding gravitational force of the black hole. According to the article “Miller (planet)” by wikia.com, the gravitational force of the black hole resulted with planet Miller having 130% of Earth’s gravity (par. 1). This would reduce the biological aging of Cooper. However, the amount of 23 years is rather large. To put in comparison, Nancy Atkinson, a science journalist for NASA, acknowledges the achievement of real time travel in the article, “Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, the World’s Most Prolific Time Traveler.” Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev orbited the Earth approximately 804 days at the speed of 7.71 km/s. In this act he actually had a time dilation of 0.02 seconds (par. 5). This basically means that he returned back to Earth 0.02 seconds younger than everyone else. 0.02 seconds may seem very short but it still the longest recorded time dilation today. The time dilation of Cooper in comparison to Krikalev can be explained by tidal
In the movie, planet Miller was right in range of the gravitational pull from the black hole. As mentioned before, black holes contain a singularity which has infinite density. That would explain the strength of the corresponding gravitational force of the black hole. According to the article “Miller (planet)” by wikia.com, the gravitational force of the black hole resulted with planet Miller having 130% of Earth’s gravity (par. 1). This would reduce the biological aging of Cooper. However, the amount of 23 years is rather large. To put in comparison, Nancy Atkinson, a science journalist for NASA, acknowledges the achievement of real time travel in the article, “Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, the World’s Most Prolific Time Traveler.” Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev orbited the Earth approximately 804 days at the speed of 7.71 km/s. In this act he actually had a time dilation of 0.02 seconds (par. 5). This basically means that he returned back to Earth 0.02 seconds younger than everyone else. 0.02 seconds may seem very short but it still the longest recorded time dilation today. The time dilation of Cooper in comparison to Krikalev can be explained by tidal